For much of the past two years, the AI conversation has orbited around OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia. Google, the original pioneer of the transformer architecture, was cast as the sleeping giant: powerful, well-funded, but slow. In 2025, that narrative is reversing.  Built on a decade of deep research investment, strengthened by rapid advances in foundation models, supported by massive infrastructure expansion, enabled by Google’s proprietary Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) plat